Lorraine September 2017 onwards

Have ITV got planning permission from the local council to raze Kent House to the ground and redevelop the site yet?

I feel like today may have been a trial for having an audience in the future. That set looks A LOT better with an audience who actually fill up the space. Haven't seen the whole thing but the setup does look better.

I'm sure the artists impressions have the Studio 8 building staying as it is (which I assume ITV would move out of and it would become something else when everything is back to normal)

I seem to remember many moons ago when Daybreak and Lorraine launched, the press release mentioned Lorraine would have an audience and nothing came of it... Might be wrong though

I appreciate that the programme was recorded on Wednesday, but as there was an on-going breaking news story (10 minutes before), was it really the right time to do it?

There have been very few occasions where this has occurred in the past. One I can remember was the High-street Fashion awards and they set up small tables with chairs around the set.

There wasn't an ongoing breaking news story 10 minutes before

I was on a "late" at work, so left at 9:40, it was certainly a reported story by then on BBC Breakfast and on BBC Two's Victoria Derbyshire programme. I assume that ITV were aware of the events well before they were reported nationally.


BBC Breakfast were reporting it at around 8:40.

BBC Breakfast first mentioned the reports they were getting at 8:43.

I think ITV's called it right here because a) the story had just broken at 8.40am-8.50am and as such was speculative and a one-line story, but more importantly b) was to some degree contained within the area and was to some degree a failed terror attack (in as much as it obviously worked by injuring some people, it didn't become a huge incident with a massive death toll).

Had it been another 7/7 then it would have been difficult to justify doing anything other than scrapping the existing show and going to ITN. This was most definitely not another 7/7.

Ideally they would have had a proper newsflash before Jeremy Kyle rather than just cobbling together something from GMB, but hey ho, the information got out there.

Will ITV daytime such as GMB and TM ever be able to go back to the southbank studios?

All ITV's South Bank studios are being demolished, but new facilities for ITV Daytime will be built and they hope to return sometime in 2022.

This Morning's studios are not included in the redevelopment so the assumption would be that they'd return there, although it's not clear at the moment.